Belladonna* Collaborative promotes the work of women and feminist writers who are adventurous, experimental, politically involved, multi-form, impossible to define, unpredictable, and dangerous with language. Belladonna* is committed to publishing and building literary community among women and LGBTQIA+ authors who write off-center, producing work that is political and critical; situational rather than plot-driven; inter-subjective, performative, or witnessing rather than personally revelatory; work that reaches across the boundaries and binaries of literary genre and artistic fields, and that questions the gender binary.
You'll find a vast archive of recordings on PennSound's series page for the collective, going all the way back to the summer of 1999. Recent Belladonna* events posted to our site have included performances by Erica Hunt, Anne Waldman, Carla Harryman, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Rachel Levitsky, Sawako Nakayasu, Tonya Foster, Julie Patton, Marcella Durand, Lyn Hejinian, Anna Moschovakis, Gail Scott, Bernadette Mayer, Stacy Szymaszek, Tina Darragh, K. Lorraine Graham, Mónica de la Torre, Patricia Spears Jones, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, and Orchid Tierney among many others. Start exploring this groundbreaking series' quarter-century history by clicking here.
